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Re:Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin ... by bsder on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @05:18PM (#34345840)
Some makerspaces are still around, for example:

Austin, TX: https://asmbly.org/

Worcester, MA: https://technocopia.org/

Irvine, CA: https://urbanworkshop.net/

The problem is that none of them are what I would call "cheap" anymore.

> Activities classes for middle schoolers where they assemble kits, not original work.

Don't look down on this. Assembling an electronics kit is what got a LOT of us greybeards into electronics. Debugging something you put together is non-trivial.

Re:Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin ... by hef19898 on Thursday January 12, 2023 @01:54AM (#34350095)
We now have a couple in my city of 300k people, I go for blacksmithing and welding (have to soon to finish something for family that lies there since November...). Or if I need some heavy woodworking machinery, luckily I have quite a bit of smaller machines at home, most of which inheritence of my late grandfather. Time permitting, I like manual work like that, good counterbalance to an otherwise typical office job.